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Leadership without Leaders? Starters and Followers in Online Collective Action [PDF]

, 2013
The Internet has been ascribed a prominent role in collective action, particularly with widespread use of social media. But most mobilisations fail. We investigate the characteristics of those few mobilisations that succeed and hypothesise that the presence of 'starters' with low thresholds for joining will determine whether a mobilisation achieves ...
arxiv   +1 more source

The role of personality in the assessment of subjective and physiological emotional reactivity : a comparison between younger and older adults [PDF]

, 2017
This study brings more clarity on the inconsistent findings on emotional reactivity differences between older (OA) and younger (YA) adults, by examining the influence of (mal)adaptive personality traits on emotional reactivity and by applying several ...
De Raedt, Rudi, Demeyer, Ineke, Rossi, Gina, Steenhaut, Priska   +3 more
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Up Close and Powerful: Leaders' Personal Sense of Power and Psychological Closeness to Their Team as Antecedents of Leader Humility, Subordinate Job Engagement and Trust

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on leader humility clearly attests to its positive consequences for followers' work‐related outcomes, yet we have only limited knowledge about the antecedents that facilitate leaders expressing humility. Drawing from theoretical works on leadership and power, we posit that leaders' personal sense of power and their psychological ...
Patrick Liborius, Christian Kiewitz, Anna Faber   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conformity in mate choice, the overlooked social component of animal and human culture

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 132-149, February 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Although conformity as a major driver for human cultural evolution is a well‐accepted and intensely studied phenomenon, its importance for non‐human animal culture has been largely overlooked until recently. This limited for decades the possibility of studying the roots of human culture.
Sabine Nöbel, Antoine Jacquet, Guillaume Isabel, Arnaud Pocheville, Paul Seabright, Etienne Danchin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of Response Aggregation Methods in Divergent Thinking Assessments

The Journal of Creative Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Divergent thinking (DT) ability is widely regarded as a central cognitive capacity underlying creativity, but its assessment is challenged by the fact that DT tasks yield a variable number of responses. Various approaches for the scoring of DT tasks have been proposed, which differ in how responses are evaluated and aggregated within a task ...
Janika Saretzki, Rosalie Andrae, Boris Forthmann, Mathias Benedek   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prayer, purpose in life, and attitudes toward substances: a study among 13- to 15-year-olds in England and Wales [PDF]

, 2009
This study set out to examine the association between prayer frequency, purpose in life and attitude toward substances, among a sample of 2,563 13- to 15-year-old secondary school pupils in England and Wales.
Francis, Leslie J., Robbins, Mandy
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The dimensions of personality in humans and other animals: A comparative and evolutionary perspective [PDF]

, 2000
This paper considers the structure and proximate mechanisms of personality in humans and other animals. Significant similarities were found between personality structures and mechanisms across species in at least two broad traits: Extraversion and ...
Budaev, Dr. Sergey
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Not fitting in and getting out : psychological type and congregational satisfaction among Anglican churchgoers in England [PDF]

, 2012
Listening to the motivations reported by individuals for ceasing church attendance and becoming church leavers, Francis and Richter identified high on the list the sense of "not fitting in".
Ball IL, Bigelow ED, Craig CL, Delis-Bulhoes V, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Gerhardt R, Gill R, Gill R, Hale JR, Hartman WJ, Hoge DR, Jung CG, Keirsey D, Kendall E, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Myers IB, Rehak MC, Richter P, Roozen DA, Ross CFJ, Ross CFJ, Savage JS   +26 more
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Smokers Are Extraverted in Japan: Smoking Habit and The Big Five Personality Traits

SAGE Open, 2019
Identifying psychological factors related to smoking habits is important to enact effective personalized treatment. We examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and smoking using a large and representative Japanese sample ( n = 4 ...
Shingo Abe, Atsushi Oshio, Tetsuya Kawamoto, Hiroyuki Ito, Taro Hirashima, Yuki Tsubota, Iori Tani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inside the mosque : a study in psychological-type profiling [PDF]

, 2012
Within a Christian context a series of studies has profiled religious participation as associated with introversion rather than extraversion and with feeling rather than thinking. The most frequently occurring type in church congregation is ISFJ.
Datoo, Fazle Abbas, Francis, Leslie J.
core   +1 more source